Do breeders of fancy chickens get mad if the buyer doesn't end up showing them?

[WarrenHound]

On the one hand, they are being useful as food, not so different than a chicken dinner.

On the other hand, blurgh. I hope they were humanely killed first.

And, blurgh.

its really a stereotype that most ppl feed live animals to snakes and dogs lets face it rats or chickens will fight back and possibly injure an animal most people feed animals that have had their necks broke or were frozen. and raw diet for dogs is fast catching on because of the failures of the pet food industry even the best expensive brands have been recalled a bit to much for peoples peace of mind let alone their wallets its actually cheaper to do a RAW diet as they call it.

just remember everyones got to eat ;p some are pets some are food way of the world. so she would use the culls of one breeding project (her chickens) to feed her other hobby (snakes) big snake she would do the same with any chicks that died or failed to get out of the egg and died inside it gives a value to the animals that are dead or not breeding worthy =] just another form of culling though i admit it might seem "icky" lol on a slighty it creeps me out note she would feed failed snake hatches or infertile snake eggs to the chickens.

 

[Moochie]

I think many breeders (not all obviously) would be upset to learn that a high quality, well bred bird was being mixed with other breeds. Breeders who are serious about what they're doing have a goal to perfect the standard. Now, many sell culls that don't meet the standards, so maybe they wouldn't care as much about those.
Take seramas for example: I've definitely read adament (and somewhat heated) posts discouraging the mixing of seramas with other breeds such as oegb, etc.
But as was said earlier, when you buy a bird, it's yours to do with what you will. So if someone wants to spend $150 on a show quality hen or roo and then use it to create "mutts," then that's the buyer's prerogative.

Well I don't mean just mix breeding. Like getting a heritage something or nother and not showing it. Keeping it as a pet but for looks too. Some show quality chickens are really gorgeous vs their pet quality cousins.
All chickens are mutts in my opinion.

 

[Moochie]

its different with chickens than with animals like cats and dogs.

if you did that to a reputable show breeder of cats or dogs or horses then yes they would get mad they would also have a contract that would be a royal smack down...and they ALWAYS know.

i have a dog i bought from a reputable breeder out of state before he was born i had to read and agree to a 6page contract that said that if i ever had to give him up he would go back to the breeder and if he was bred without a CH title to an unapproved female i would pay 1,500 for each pup born of the transgression. dog show communities are pretty open ended everyone knows everyone elses dirty secrets. a woman in alaska tried to break a contract by both altering and dumping her dog at a shelter and withen 1 day people in alaska knew and ad reported it to the breeder who went there to collect the dog and sue for breach of contract.

its not the same with chickens because they are still deemed more livestock than pets and they can be eaten by man or beast. so a mixed flock isnt exactly unacceptable ..

in both pets and livestock however mixes generally do not fetch as much because you don't know really what characteristics you are getting thats like a pugXbeagle that has the pugs breathing problems and the beagles desire to run..bad combination doesnt always happen but does with that mix and many others...corgi to dachsund both have back problems and would just make for more or a corgi to a basset ... you dont know if it will be better or worse or what characteristics the litter will have or the chicks. i have a mixed flock of chickens but i have a general idea of what i will get.

just put a turken Xsilkie in the incubator with my purebred bantam cochin eggs and amerucana and orpington eggs i plan to separate my cochins from the others for breeding purposes .
no contract from the breeder? then they have no right to get mad if you cross the birds you bought it all rights are yours

actually knew a woman that bred birds for show and the culls were fed to her dogs and snakes

I wouldn't do it with a dog or a cat or a horse. There's already such a huge problem with backyard breeders and shelters, no need to add to that problem. Actually I've been looking at ragdoll cats, high quality because I love blue eyes and shelters almost never have blue eyed ones with soft rabbit like fur, and I found one great site that I favorited and one day I hope to get a kitten from them. They have a waiting list/reserve list and I really want to get a chocolate ragdoll or chocolate bi-color. I'm not interested in breeding and I will not break any of the contract rules. Just a lovely and pretty kitty cat

2 of my dachshunds are adopted and they super pet quality, one has an over-bite (but he's a super sweet boy), one has coarse rigid fur and has lower spinal problems so he cannot jump onto things at all and I already don't encourage to jump at all, my first dachshund I got when I was 10 years old and she's purebred (but not show quality, just regular) because I remember seeing her parents and grandparents on the property, and my last boy came from one of my mom's friends. I don't and won't plan on breeding any of them ever. If I ever get a new dog I'm planning to get a border collie bred for working from a breeder.

That's kinda mean.

Makes me glad that I have Sugar, anyone else would have killed her when she was young. Sugar is my dwarf buff orpington, not bantam, dwarf.

 

[TimG]

IMO, there is a difference between chickens and dogs, horses, or cats. Chickens are livestock in the sense that they produce eggs and meat, horses, cats, and dogs don't produce meat, milk, etc. at least not in our culture.

If you want to keep a chicken (of any quality) as a pet, then go right ahead. You will not be contributing to an over-population problem. If you decide you have too many chickens, you can eat a few (or feed some to your dogs). Not the same with dogs, cats, or horses.

Since it matters to you, your best course of action is to simply ask the SQ breeder how she would feel about you purchasing one of her birds and then not showing or breeding it. She might think it's fine, she might say she'd rather you not. If she looks down upon you because she doesn't recognize that different people have different, yet perfectly valid, purposes in their chicken keeping, then her opinion probably isn't one that I'd worry about. Oh well, life is too short to worry about such things.

 

[aoxa]

IMO, there is a difference between chickens and dogs, horses, or cats.  Chickens are livestock in the sense that they produce eggs and meat, horses, cats, and dogs don't produce meat, milk, etc. at least not in our culture.

If you want to keep a chicken (of any quality) as a pet, then go right ahead.  You will not be contributing to an over-population problem.  If you decide you have too many chickens, you can eat a few (or feed some to your dogs).  Not the same with dogs, cats, or horses.

Since it matters to you, your best course of action is to simply ask the SQ breeder how she would feel about you purchasing one of her birds and then not showing or breeding it.  She might think it's fine, she might say she'd rather you not.  If she looks down upon you because she doesn't recognize that different people have different, yet perfectly valid, purposes in their chicken keeping, then her opinion probably isn't one that I'd worry about.  Oh well, life is too short to worry about such things.

I've been told time and time again: "What other people think about me is none of my business". and it's true, as long as they are not vocal about it.